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INTRODUCTION of INFINITE SERIES in HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CALCULUS Ericka Bella John Carroll University, Ebella19@Jcu.Edu John Carroll University Carroll Collected Masters Essays Master's Theses and Essays Summer 2019 INTRODUCTION OF INFINITE SERIES IN HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CALCULUS Ericka Bella John Carroll University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://collected.jcu.edu/mastersessays Part of the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Bella, Ericka, "INTRODUCTION OF INFINITE SERIES IN HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CALCULUS" (2019). Masters Essays. 122. https://collected.jcu.edu/mastersessays/122 This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Essays at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Essays by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INTRODUCTION OF INFINITE SERIES IN HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL CALCULUS An Essay Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies College of Arts & Sciences of John Carroll University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts By Ericka L. Bella 2019 The essay of Ericka L. Bella is hereby accepted: ___________________________________________ _____________________ Advisor – Barbara K. D’Ambrosia Date I certify that this is the original document ___________________________________________ _____________________ Author – Ericka L. Bella Date Table of Contents Introduction ..........................................................................................................................1 Lesson 1: Introduction to Sequences and Series Teacher Notes ...................................................................................................................3 Guided Notes with Answers .............................................................................................4 Activity Sheet with Answers ............................................................................................7 Lesson 2: The nth-Term Test for Divergence Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................10 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................11 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................17 Lesson 3: Geometric Series Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................21 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................22 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................28 Lesson 4: p-Series Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................34 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................35 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................45 Lesson 5: Direct Comparison Test Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................49 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................50 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................59 Lesson 6: Limit Comparison Test Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................63 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................64 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................74 Lesson 7: Ratio Test Teacher Notes .................................................................................................................78 Guided Notes with Answers ...........................................................................................79 Activity Sheet with Answers ..........................................................................................89 Appendix: Guided Notes and Activity Sheets for Students ...............................................95 References ........................................................................................................................181 Introduction For the past six years, I have taught a variety of calculus courses, ranging from AP Calculus BC, College Credit Plus Calculus 1 and 2, and Calculus, which is an introductory course that does not lead to college credit. The curriculum in each of these courses differs significantly. While one course starts the year with limits and differentiation, another slowly builds up to calculus topics, beginning with a hearty review of pre-calculus material. Depending on which calculus course students decide to take, they may end the year with derivatives and integration of trigonometric functions, while others are learning various techniques of integration. Regardless of what calculus course my students decide to take, I want them to be as well prepared as possible for the mathematics classes they may take in college. For most of my students, calculus is the last mathematics class they will take in high school and I believe exposing them to new content is essential, even if we cannot cover it in depth due to time restrictions. Many of my past students have come back to visit while in college and mentioned that learning calculus topics in college has been significantly easier because they have had some exposure to these ideas in high school. For this essay, I have designed an introduction to sequences and series for my non- college level Calculus course. This course begins with precalculus material and ends with the calculus of trigonometric functions. The students in this course do not encounter any content regarding sequences or series in the current curriculum. Based on my previous experiences as a student, entering college calculus without having learned about the convergence and divergence of series was a challenging task. There are a multitude of tests and rules to learn and knowing when and how to apply each can be confusing. This introductory unit includes the following for each lesson: teacher notes, guided notes sheets, and an activity sheet, with solutions printed in red. Blank student documents are available in the appendix. I used language, notation, and organization of the sequences and series material as in the textbook Calculus of a Single Variable by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards [2]. Due to the daily schedule at my school, I have planned each lesson for an 80-minute class period. I will lead students through the guided notes, with students completing the notes as reference for future use. Students will work in groups of two or three to complete the activity for the lesson. Students will provide their own technology for each lesson, as all students in my courses are required to own a TI-Nspire CX calculator. Since there are no Ohio Mathematics Learning Standards for Calculus, I have linked standards for each activity to the AP Calculus BC College Board course description. 1 Additionally, all activities reflect the following four mathematical practices as defined by College Board [1]. Mathematical Practice 1: Determine expressions and values using mathematical procedures and rules. Mathematical Practice 2: Translate mathematical information from a single representation or across multiple representations. Mathematical Practice 3: Justify reasoning and solutions. Mathematical Practice 4: Use correct notation, language, and mathematical conventions to communicate results or solutions. Overall, I hope to expose my high school calculus students to the foundation of sequences and series. This is not intended to be an all-encompassing study, but instead an introduction on which they can later build. Although there are many tests for determining the convergence of series, I have purposefully selected six in particular to focus on: The nth-Term Test, Geometric Series, p-Series, Direct Comparison Test, Limit Comparison Test, and Ratio Test. Students do not learn partial fraction decomposition or infinite integrals in this course. Therefore, I have decided to leave Telescoping Series and the Integral Test out of this unit. 2 Lesson 1: Introduction to Sequences and Series Teacher Notes Overview: In this lesson, students will be introduced to sequences and series. Although some students enter calculus with prior knowledge of these terms, most students need a refresher to jog their memories. Although sequences and series are discussed in Algebra 2, the focus is often only arithmetic and geometric sequences and series. While these types of sequences and series are revisited in calculus, arithmetic and geometric sequences and series are very simplistic compared to what students see in a calculus course. This introduction is a great time to review factorials as well. In this first activity, students will classify sequences and series. Students will be given sequences and asked to list terms, as well as find an expression for the nth term of a sequence. Students will predict whether a sequence will have a limit given the pattern for the nth term. Finally, students will be asked to find partial sums of a series. When creating the examples for this activity, I wanted
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